Mining

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Known Mines

Kordan

Archais

  • (Mithril) Dragon Tooth Mines
  • (Nickel) (Instanced) Smuggler's Cove Talk to Valgard for directions to hidden entrance
  • (Charoite) (Instanced) A charoite mine Terawood are. Requires completion of cartographer quest to enter
  • (Raw Earth Tears) (Instanced) Winzigklein the city of the cliff gnomes Terawood area
  • (Iron) (Instanced) The dwarven stronghold of Runn-Faru
    • Lava tunnel on lower levels should be prospected for possible diamonds
  • The Outer Planes reached from Redferne's Floating Palace are great places to find deposits for the relevant element (SAVE_ZAP in plane of Earth, SAVE_FIRE in plane of fire, etc.) including special deposits like Frostshard

Mainland

Minerals

Mineral Location Primary Secondary Spell Comp Affinity
Agate MANA_REGEN Random Yes Lightning
Aetherstone SHIELD_BLOCK PARRY Yes force fields
Alabaster CHR MANA_REGEN Yes Curse
Albite MOV_REGEN PARRY Yes Curse
Amber ABSORB_ZAP AGE Yes Lightning
Amethyst SAVE_ZAP SAVE_PIOSON Yes Healing
Ametrine SAVE_ZAP SPELL_RES Yes Lightning
Ammolite MANA_REGEN AGE Yes illusion
Ancient Fossils AGE INT Yes Shadow
Anhydrite Yes crystal spear
Anorthite HIT_POINTS
Apataite (Piece Of) SHIELD BLOCK CON Yes none
Aquamarine SAVE_POISON SAVE_SPELL Yes prism
Argillite HP_REGEN
Aventurine SPELL_RES SAVE_ZAP
Axinite SNEAK MOV_REGEN Yes illusion
Basalt CON ARMOR
Black Diamond ARMOR HIT_POINTS No
Black Obsidian SAVE_FIRE HIT_POINTS Yes Fire
Black Opal HPREGEN LUCK
Block of Ice Northern Continent Mountains ABSORB_ICE
Bloedite Yes none
Blood Quartz Chaos SAVE_ZAP DAMROLL Yes Fire
Bloodstone CON MOV_REGEN
Blue Diamond NW Lava Room, Ryuu Rookery HITROLL ATTACK_SPEED
Blue Jade LUCK CAST_ABILITY
Blue Quartz Plane of Light SAVE_ZAP MANA_REGEN Yes Healing
Blue Topaz SAVE_BREATH SAVE_COLD
Boracite MANA_REGEN DAMROLL Yes n/a
Borax Yes preservation
Brimstone ABSORB_FIRE HIT_POINTS
Brown Sandstone MOVE
Brown Standstone MOVE Yes none
Calcite INT CHR Yes none
Calthemite Yes crystal light
Carnelian WIS INT Yes Blood
Celestine SAVE_COLD MANA_REGEN
Chalk Yes sanctuary
Charoite SAVE_SPELL
Chert SAVE_ZAP SHIELD_BLOCK Yes shards
Chocolate Diamond Central Lava Room, Ryuu Rookery HITROLL DAMROLL
Chondodrite MANA_REGEN CAST_ABILITY Yes none
Chrysoberol CAST_ABILITY
Chrysoberyl CAST_ABILITY CAST_ABILITY Yes none
Chrysoprase MOV_REGEN MOVE Yes None
Cinnabar SAVE_POISON HIT_POINTS
Citrine Quartz SAVE_ZAP MANA
Citrine SAVE_ZAP Yes None
Clear Quartz SAVE_ZAP INT Yes Lightning
Clinohumite SAVE_FIRE? DODGE? Yes force fields
Coal Yes fire
Cuprite SAVE_ZAP HIT_POINTS
Datolite MOV_REGEN ATTACK_SPEED Yes None
Demon-Eye Stone ABSORB_FIRE SAVE_BREATH Yes torment
Diatomite Yes none
Diopside SPELL_RES MANA Yes Lightning
Diorite ARMOR CON
Dolostone CON PARRY Yes None
Dragonfang Quartz SAVE_ZAP HITROLL Yes Healing
Earth Tears MANA_REGEN INT
Ebonite Yes ground
Emerald Griffins, On Emerald dragon in Ryuu SAVE_POISON SAVE_SPELL sac
Epidote DODGE DEX Yes None
Epsomite Yes healing
Euclase SAVE_COLD ABSORB_ICE Yes None
Flint SAVE_ZAP
Fluorite MANA Yes Illusion
Flurorite MANA Yes crystal spear
Frostshard ABSORB_ICE SAVE_BREATH Yes ice spells
Fulgurite Yes ball lightning
Garnet SAVE_COLD SAVE_FIRE Yes Ice
Gneiss STR PARRY
Golden Beryl Brightstone Keep - East Path SAVE_POISON
Grandidierite ATTACK_SPEED DEX Yes none
Granite HIT_POINTS
Green Jade LUCK CON
Green Obsidian SAVE_FIRE LUCK Yes none
Greenstone PARRY ARMOR
Hackmanite Mountains WIS CHR
Halite Yes protection from demons
Hawk Eye DEX INT Yes shadow
Hawk-eye DEX INT Yes None
Heartstone HP_REGEN CON
Hematite SAVE_SPELL HIT_POINTS
Hornblende HIT_POINTS SHIELD_BLOCK
Howlite SAVE_POISON MOV_REGEN
Hubnerite SAVE_FIRE DAMROLL Yes Divine Aid
Hyalite ABS_MAGIC LUCK Yes healing
Iolite ABSORB_MAGIC HIT_POINTS
Jasper HP_REGEN STR
Jet DODGE SNEAK Yes healing
Kunzite CHR MANA_REGEN Yes Curse
Kyanite SAVE_COLD DAMROLL Yes Color Spray
Labradorite SPELL_RES CHR Yes None
Lapis Lazuli ABSORB_ICE MANA Yes Shards
Larimar INT STR
Lazulite ABSORB_ICE HIT_POINTS
Leucite HIT_POINTS CON
Limestone MOVE Yes None
Mahogany Obsidian SAVE_FIRE CHR Yes Fire
Marlstone Yes alteration
Menilite MOV_REGEN LUCK
Mica Yes force field spells
Microline CHR MOVE
Milky Quartz SAVE_ZAP MOVE Yes Lightning
Moonstone MANA_REGEN MANA Yes Harm
Olivine HIT_POINTS SAVE_FIRE
Ominelite DODGE MOV_REGEN Yes lightning
Onyx Hide DEX Yes Mass Confusion
Opal MANA_REGEN LUCK
Orange Topaz Brown Drake room - Wasteland SAVE_BREATH SAVE_SPELL Yes Illusion
Orpiment Yes none
Padparadsha MANA_REGEN
Padparasche Plane of Light MANA_REGEN SAVE_FIRE
Painite INT
Peat Yes alteration
Peridot SAVE_FIRE SAVE_ZAP Yes Fire
Petrified Wood AGE WIS Yes None
Petrrified Wood AGE WIS Yes none
Pezottaite Voss'Darzi Lair MANA regen
Pink Jade LUCK WIS Yes none
Polyhalite Yes torment
Potash Yes entangling roots
Potch Opal MANA LUCK
Prehnite STR DEX Yes None
Proustite MOV_REGEN Yes Poison
Puddingstone HP_REGEN MANA_REGEN Yes alteration
Pumice Yes fatigue
Quartzite HIT_POINTS SAVE_ZAP
Raw Ammolite MANA_REGEN AGE Yes None
Raw earth Tears MANA_REGEN Yes Poison
Raw Jet DODGE SNEAK Yes Healing
Raw Red Jade Jade Monastary ABSORB_FIRE
Raw White Jade Jade Monastary ABSORB_ZAP
Realgar Yes fire
Red Jade ABSORB_FIRE LUCK
Red Sandstone CHR MOV_REGEN
Red Topaz (Archais) Smuggler's Cove SAVE_BREATH SAVE_ZAP ? ?
Rhyolite SAVE_FIRE
Riftstone SAVE_BREATH MANA_REGEN
Rose Quartz SAVE_ZAP CHR Yes None
Rough Diamond
Ruby Mines under Stone Giants SAVE_FIRE SAVE_SPELL
Rutile HIT_POINTS HITROLL Yes Blood
Sal Ammoniac
Saltpeter Yes fire
Sard INT CHR
Sardonyx CHR WIS
Scapolite MOVE Yes none
Scapolite MOVE Yes
Selenite Yes healing
Serpentine MANA HIT_POINTS
Shadow Crystal Shadow terrain Yes
Sheen Obsidian (Archais) Cranston Hills Mine SAVE_FIRE MANA_REGEN
Sillimanite Pygmy Island Beach MANA WIS Yes Divine Aid
Smoky Quartz SAVE_ZAP DODGE Yes None
Snowflake Obsidian ABSORB_FIRE MANA Yes None
Soda Niter Yes fire spells
Sodalite HIT_POINTS CHR
Sphene HIT_POINTS MANA Yes None
Spinel SAVE_SPELL Yes Evil
Starstone MANA_REGEN MOVE Yes Alteration
Staurolite Emerald City WIS DAMROLL Yes None
Stibnite Yes none
Sugilite DAMROLL SAVE_SPELL
Sunstone Plane of Light ABSORB_FIRE SAVE_FIRE Yes Divine Aid
Sylvite Yes crystal spear
Taaffeite DODGE Yes none
Talc (Soapstone) MANA MOVE
Talc MANA
Thulite SHIELD_BLOCK Armor Yes
Tiger-Eye STR CON Yes Lightning
Tourmaline MANA INT Yes Healing
Triplite MOV_REGEN STR YES None
Trona Yes forcefields
Turquoise SAVE_POISON HP_REGEN Yes None
Verdite CON WIS
Vermarine SAVE_ZAP WIS Yes None
Vespine Gas Yes detect poison
Warpstone RANDOM Yes torment
Wavellite CHR MANA Yes None
White Diamond Lava rooms SAVE_SPELL SPELL_RES
White Jade LUCK
White Opal MANA_REGEN LUCK
Yellow Clay
Yellow Diamond Lava rooms ATTACK_SPEED DAMROLL
Zircon SPELL_RES HIT_POINTS Yes None

Ores

Purity

Identifying an ore will show a purity next to the COMPOSITION

Item: 'bar black metal pig iron'  
Weight: 45  Size: 1'5"
Type: ORE   Composition: IRON  most pure
Object is: 

Different purities will yield different percentages of metal when smelted:

  • most pure: ~100%
  • more pure: ~61%
  • moderately pure: ~53%
  • less pure: ~40%
  • least pure: ~25%

List

Mineral Ore Location Purity
Abhurite Tin more pure
Adamite Zinc moderately pure
Anglesite Lead
Arjalite Arjale Fire Giant Mines, Imp Caverns - Kordan
Azurite Copper In the G&K copper mine
Bismite Bismuth
Bismuthinite Bismuth
Black Veined Pitch Black Metal Northern Continent Mines
Bornite Copper
Braunite Manganese
Calamine Zinc least pure
Cassiterite Tin
Cerussite Lead least pure
Chalcocite Copper
Chalcopyrite Copper
Chert Zinc
Cinnabar Quicksilver
Coal Carbon
Cotunnite Lead Lava Rooms moderately pure
Crocoite Lead least pure
Cuprite Copper
Engarite Copper
Galena Lead more pure
Garnierite Nickel
Gimlite Mithril Undead Dwarf Kingdom
Goethite Iron less pure
Greenockite Cadmium
Greigite Iron
Hematite Iron more pure
Iodargyrite Silver more pure
Iron Pyrite Iron least pure
Limonite Iron less pure
Loganite Adamantium Ryuu Rookery - On Mine Quartermaster
Nephite Ziff Swamp of Sorrow
Malachite Copper
Maucherite Nickel moderately pure
Manganite Manganese
Millerite Nickel
Mithril Mithril least pure
Orichalcum Orichalcum Bench in Armorers Room - Atlantis
Psilomelane Manganese
Pyrargyrite Silver less pure
Pyrolusite Manganese
Red Veined Blood Red Metal Northern Continent Mines
Rhodochrosite Manganese
Rhodonite Manganese
Selenide Selenium
Siderite Iron
Sphalerite Zinc moderately pure
Stannite Tin
Sylvanite Gold
Teallite Tin
Tenorite Copper
Tetrahedrite Copper
Titanium Adamantium Under Stone Giants least pure
Ziff Ziff Swamps of Sorrow Mines, Tolotrid Room
Zinc Spar Zinc
Zincite Zinc less pure